William KentridgeCity Deep, 2020
Single channel HD film
Variable Dimensions
"City Deep is the eleventh in the series of Soho Eckstein films, started in 1989. In 1990 there was the film Mine, which had images of deep level industrial mining. 19 years later deep level mining has moved to the surface mining of the "zama zama" miners - the informal mine work taking place in abandoned mines - manual labour replacing large machines. This activity is set against images of the Johannesburg Art Gallery, itself built on the basis of the heyday of gold mining in Johannesburg. During the course of the film, images of the landscapes and the miners become the artworks in the gallery, viewed by Soho Eckstein."
William Kentridge
